A BBC North West Tonight project in Fleetwood is bringing schoolchildren and older residents together as pen pals, helping generations connect through handwritten letters.

JIM THORPE – Judith Umlas treasures the gift she received from her mother’s pen pal of nearly 70 years – a glimpse at the vibrant young woman her mother was in the years before she entered the world.

In the hope of reviving letter writing, BBC North West Tonight has launched a pen pal project.

Celesta Byrne and Geoff Banks have been across-the-pond pen pals for nearly 84 years — and recently celebrated their 100th birthdays with their first video call. The letter-writers — Byrne is American ...

Watching YouTube and playing with the dog. A trip to Universal Studios with family. Listening to “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys. The teenagers describing some of their favorite pastimes ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

Carol-Ann Krause (left) and Patsy Gregory, both 80, have corresponded since they were 12 in 1955. Courtesy of Steph Calam / SWNS These two 80-year-old pen pals were stationary for 68 years, but they ...

It's always fun when you come across things that you wrote when you were a kid. On Saturday, Larry Nance Jr. was reminded of a string of letters he wrote to a U.S. soldier when he was just 10 years ...

After six decades of friendship fostered by handwritten letters, two pen pals finally met face-to-face for the first time — and the interaction was captured in a now-viral video. Emily Conn from ...